Length: Short story submissions up to 10,000 characters (approx. 8.5 pages)
Payment: $25-$75 flat fee on acceptance
Genre: Fiction
Stories published: up to 24/yr.
Rights bought: Electronic only (you retain all print rights)
Simultaneous Submissions: Yes
Response time: Two weeks
Special Instructions: Please read the guidelines below before submitting
Page Forty-Seven online anthology accepts short story submissions from new and established writers.
If you are a new writer, we are particularly interested in helping you establish yourself as a writer by providing an early publication credit, possibly your first.
Before you submit a short story to this site, or simply for good reading, please review the stories we've already published in Page Forty-Seven Online Anthology.
If your short story submission is of publishable quality, and if we wish to feature your work, you will hear from us within two weeks.
If you do not hear from us within two weeks, you may assume that we cannot use the work at this time. Please do not email to ask why you have not heard from us.
We would like to respond to every submission with a personal note, but unfortunately it is all we can do to read the submissions in a timely fashion. When a story is not quite ready, but catches our attention because of its originality and potential, we may contact you to let you know that we would like to see it after revisions, but this contact is at our discretion.
This is an adjudicated publication, where your work is selected and published on the basis of merit. This site is visited by print publishers looking for quality short fiction, and at least one story ("Woman Under the Thames"), has been reprinted after publication here. If we hear from someone interested in your work, we will let you know. If you have a web site, feel free to include it in your byline so others may contact you directly. To protect you from spammers, we do not publish email addresses.
In any short story competition or publishing environment, good writing is always refused along with bad. The same is true here. We have a small budget and particular tastes. We can only purchase a fraction of the stories we receive, a few stories a year, and we're looking for something out of the ordinary. We particularly welcome short humourous pieces, such as "Death by Scrabble" and strong literary stories. Please read the published stories before you submit, read about submission etiquette, and use the editing checklist .
Never allow yourself to be discouraged by rejection. It's possible the magazine or journal published a story similar to yours in the last issue, or a few months back. Maybe they have exhausted their current budget, or the subject of your story does not fit with an overall theme the editor desires. Perhaps the manuscript quality was extra high the month you submitted, and your short story submission had to compete with others by well known and established writers. There are many reasons why your story may be rejected.
Persevere. Try another publication or submit a different story. However...
Here, you have an edge. We actively solicit new and unpublished writers and welcome your short story submissions.
All payments are made electronically, via PayPal or Hyperwallet. If you do not have an electronic account, please be prepared to open one upon acceptance of your story. As noted above, if we wish to purchase your story, you will hear from us within one week.
The short story submission form does not recognize indented paragraphs. Please format your story with spaces between paragraphs, not indentations, and submit in plain text only (no curly quotation marks, commas, apostrophes) to prevent question marks and other symbols in the text.
If you see these marks in your story after submission, simply correct your text and resubmit.
Please use the information and tips found on this site to do a final edit of your work, and then submit your story below. Use this link for more advice on what to check before you send us your short story submission. Many otherwise good stories are rejected for overuse of adverbs and participial phrases, improper understanding of dialogue conventions, lack of good editing, etc.
Checklist:
1. Have you read the published stories to see if your work is a good fit?
2. Have you edited carefully and replaced all "curly" quotation marks and apostrophes?
3. Have you included a paragraph at the end of your story that answers the following questions:
# Have you been published yet?
# How did you find this site?
# What is the email address to which we should send payment?
All short story submissions posted on this page confirm the author's copyright and may NOT be reproduced for any reason without permission from the author.
Submit here.
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